Prompt
· English
View from under a table or a shelf, its underside a dark band across the top of the frame, a 76-year-old man of Aboriginal Australian descent sits on a rustic wooden bench inside a stone hut, looking down at a worn map spread across his knees, the air thick with the smell of woodsmoke and wet wool. The man has very deep brown skin with cool undertones, an athletic build, and an oval face, winking with a crooked grin. He has warm brown eyes, thin fine eyebrows, and soft springy coils in very long waist-length hair, jet-black in colour, arranged in a single French braid. He wears reading glasses perched low on the nose, a black puffer jacket, a wool beanie, and a scarf. Mud-caked hiking boots with laces untied and frayed rest on the stone floor. A ceramic mug of tea with a chipped rim sits on the stone table, and cracked leather gloves hang from a nail on the wall. The shot uses a large-format view camera on a tripod, keeping everything sharp and the lines perfectly straight, with a blurred object close to the lens in the foreground and the main figure sharp in the middle distance. Pink and cyan light spills from a nearby neon sign, casting colored hues across the stone surfaces. Shot on a large format film camera with deep depth of field and high contrast, capturing the texture of the stone and the fabric of the jacket.
